Welcome to Palmaltas

Welcome to the official website of multi-genre author Patricia C. Hernández. As Tricia Lee, she writes contemporary romance with a touch of comedy. Her Chancey-Hernández Zoo Trilogy captures both the dark and light sides of human nature, death and murder. The Lea Chan mysteries project a quirky dark humor with unexpected twists and turns. Palmaltas, a fictional island in the Caribbean west of Jamaica and south of the Caymans, is a place where reading and fantasizing come together. Pull up a beach chair and settle under a tall palm tree with a book that will take you to places about which you can only dream. A tall glass of Palmaltas punch will miraculously appear. As you turn the pages, a sea breeze will riffle the palm fronds above you and the lapping of the waves on the beach will intermingle with the soothing reggae melodies in the background and an occasional burst of calypso nearby.Ah, Palmaltas…sun, sea, sand, mystery and romance!

Latest Releases

After a disastrous summer for Avery Mann and his friend Pam. the new school year started without a hitch for both of them in Swaying Palms, Florida. As a high school Social Studies teacher, Avery settled into a routine that he enjoyed plus making friends with other faculty members. All was right with the world. He couldn't have been more wrong. There was no way he could have anticipated the nightmare that was coming.

The goal of friends Clay and Marty is to win a hottest category salsa contest. The goal of their wives Hannah and Sherylynn is to work on archaeological and horticultural projects in Southwest New Mexico for an online college. Never mind that Clay and Marty don’t know the first thing about making salsa, hot or otherwise, as they set out on a modern picaresque journey to find the hottest chile peppers. As Clay and Marty begin their experiments and offering them to locals for an opinion, they are oblivious to the effects their efforts are having. And the human bones Sherylynn and Hannah find are not part of their projects.

Two car crashes set off two desperate searches. In one crash the dearly beloved secretary of an insurance agent plunges off a cliff. In the other a middle-aged, spinster heiress to a billion dollar fortune dies in a fiery accident. From these two incidents, the insurance agent searches for the missing sister of his secretary and a private detective races to find out if there is an heir to the fortune.The two searches collide with unexpected results.

While having lunch with her best friend in a crowded restaurant, Danielle Stevens locks eyes with a stranger across the room. She looks away, startled that she thinks she has seen someone from her past: someone she never wants to see again.

At that moment, Blake Wallace, the recipient of her stare, asks his companion if he has ever seen someone who seems familiar but doesn’t know why. His friend laughs, teasing him that he has had too many women in his past.

A spunky Texas country girl becomes a spunky Texas businesswoman who encounters a suave and debonair northeastern executive at work. A friend's challenge sends the romance into a serio-comical charade that almost spins out of control